IP Library Granted Patent US 8,177,045
Granted Patent B2
US 8,177,045 · App. 12/315,977 · Granted May 15, 2012

Hydraulic system with a regulating circuit for controlling a motor vehicle transmission with automated actuation of clutches

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Patent No.
US 8,177,045
App. No.
12/315,977
Granted
May 15, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A hydraulic system for controlling a motor vehicle transmission having automated actuation of clutches. The hydraulic system includes a first valve connected downstream from a hydraulic energy source for producing a system pressure to control and/or regulate a clutch pressure. A second valve is connected downstream from the first valve and ahead of two clutches of the motor vehicle transmission to control and/or regulate the clutch pressure, wherein the second valve includes a regulating circuit to regulate the clutch pressure.

Claims (19)

1. A hydraulic system for controlling a motor vehicle transmission having automated actuation of clutches, said hydraulic system comprising:

a first valve connected downstream from a hydraulic energy source for producing a system pressure to control and/or regulate a clutch pressure,

a second valve connected downstream from the first valve and ahead of two clutches of the vehicle transmission with automated actuation of clutches to control and/or regulate the clutch pressure,

a third valve for selecting gear ranges P, R, N, D, S of the vehicle transmission with automated actuation of clutches is connected between the clutches and the second valve, and

a regulating circuit for regulating the clutch pressure.

2. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 1 , including a baffle connected parallel to the clutches in a parallel branch.

3. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 2 , wherein the parallel branch is connected with a tank of the hydraulic system.

4. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 1 , wherein an adjusting device of the regulating circuit includes the second valve.

5. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 1 , wherein an electrically actuatable proportional valve is connected ahead of the second valve to actuate it.

6. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 5 , wherein an adjusting device of the regulating circuit includes a second proportional valve.

7. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 6 , including an electronic transmission control that includes a regulator of the regulating circuit to electrically actuate the second proportional valve.

8. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 1 , wherein a measuring device of the regulating circuit includes a pressure sensor connected between the second valve and the clutches.

9. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 1 , wherein a first, electrically actuatable proportional valve is connected ahead of the first valve to actuate it.

10. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the regulating circuit includes a pressure return of the second valve or of a safety valve.

11. A hydraulic system in accordance with claim 10 , wherein the pressure return includes a pressure return guiding surface which is connected parallel to an actuating surface that is downstream from the second proportional valve and which pressure return guiding surface is pressurized with the clutch pressure.

12. A vehicle transmission with automated actuation of clutches, having a hydraulic system in accordance with claim 1 .

13. A vehicle transmission in accordance with claim 12 , wherein the transmission is at least one of a shift transmission with electric clutch management, an automated shift transmission, a double-clutch transmission, an automatic transmission with a stepped automatic system, and a continuously variable transmission (CVT).

14. A motor vehicle having a vehicle transmission in accordance with claim 13 .

15. A motor vehicle having a vehicle transmission in accordance with claim 12 .

Assignments (7)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE PROPERTY NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 037732 FRAME 0347. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE APP. NO. 14/553248 SHOULD BE APP. NO. 14/553258. Recorded Oct 11, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 040404/0530 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: LUK VERMÖGENSVERWALTUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037731/0748 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037731/0834 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG; SCHAEFFLER VERWALTUNGS 5 GMBH
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0228 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0347 →
MERGER Recorded Feb 3, 2016
From: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
To: LUK VERMÖGENSVERWALTUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
Reel/Frame 037740/0589 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 2, 2009
From: MULLER, HOLGER; SCHAUFLER, MARIO
To: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
Reel/Frame 022336/0183 →